Aviation Week & Space Technology

Defense plans outlines modernization through to the 2030s.

Once the workhorse of the U.S. launch fleet, United Launch Alliance’s Delta II heads into the history books.

With completion of development flight-testing, the Lockheed Martin-led team provides a deep dive into the engineering effort behind developing the F-35.

The F-35B exists because of its commonality with the F-35A and F-35C, but all three variants are better aircraft because of the STOVL version challenges.

Crossover narrowbodies—whose capacity falls between regionals and single-aisles—are almost all clean-sheet designs and have maintainability “designed in.”

Having already felt the bite of U.S. competition, Arianespace counting on new rocket to keep it in the commercial space launch game

Borrowing best practices, technologies from heritage Atlas and Delta programs, ULA pivots to compete in new space environment.

Lockheed and Tata potentially to make F-16 wings in India; Russia to reengine Su-30SMs; India, Israel to make high-altitude UAV; Sierra Nevada bags A-29 pact.

Pentagon leaders want 3-5% budget growth after inflation. The next White House budget probably won’t give them that.

Nuclear mission is likely to be a critical element in Brussels’ future fighter thinking.

Northrop designed the Vanguard architecture to support a shift to a modular approach that reuses the same software and hardware on a range of products spanning airborne, ground and surface platforms.

Fit checks for first electric motor conducted on X-57 Maxwell as composite cruise optimized wing comes stogether for follow-on test phase.

In a bid to improve visitor experience, France is pushing the use of airport automated passport control gates, despite organizational challenges.

Aeronautical researcher and engineering test pilot Robert Harper, co-developer of the Cooper-Harper pilot rating scale, died on Aug. 23.

How a Tier 1 provider plans to go from being an old-school manufacturer to a digital powerhouse.

The efforts of employees since 1958 have helped the FAA deliver the world’s best aviation safety record, the agency says.

Since the first flight of the fifth-generation stealth fighter, the defense ministry has scaled back plans for its purchase.

Sensor upgrades and propulsion advances set to boost IAI space-based intelligence-gathering.

While Jet Airways is forced to undertake a cost-cutting program, other Indian carriers also are under increased financial pressure.

Vacuum-chamber test results drive design improvements to NASA Mars Helicopter.

Nikkiso hints that it wants to step up to the first tier while maintaining its current second-tier business. And it wants to develop more parts.

The U.S. Navy is working on various challenges for the last of the Joint Strike Fighter versions, still hoping to have it ready for battle by early next year.

The $805 million contract is just the start of what might blossom into $7 billion in carrier-based, aerial refueling tanker work.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Boeing has finalized a landing gear design for the 737-10 taller than other MAX models, for the same wheel well. How was this innovative design achieved?